Join us for a look into a research project that examines the implementation of the EdTPA performance assessment sytem for pre-service teachers in New York. The researchers will talk about the processes they used for transforming raw interview data into themes that become the basis of research articles. Over two years, they conducted surveys of over 350 teaching candidates across New York and Washington and interviewed 60 for a follow-up interview, including 36 in the second year. The talk will take a close look at the analysis of these 36 interviews, describing both primary and secondary coding processes, and the transformation of this data into findings and then manuscripts.